Many health concerns don’t exist in isolation. Low energy, anxiety, digestive issues, hormone imbalance, weight gain or cognitive changes often share common underlying drivers rooted in diet, lifestyle, environment and physiology.
I work with individuals to identify and address these root causes through personalised, evidence-informed nutritional therapy and lifestyle support. Rather than masking symptoms, my approach focuses on restoring balance, supporting the body’s natural systems and building long-term resilience, health span and quality of life.
Below are some of the conditions I commonly support.
Healthy Weight Management Post Fat Jab
In reality, fat jabs or GLP-1 receptor agonists are effective for losing weight but once stopped weight tends to pile back on unless diet, nutrition, lifestyle, environmental and psychological factors are addressed. For a variety of other reasons you may feel sluggish and ‘off’ and anything but your best self, despite the weight loss.
Some things really are too good to be true. Wegovy and Mounjaro for example, artificially suppress the appetite by acting on GLP-1 receptors which reduce hunger by keeping food in the stomach for longer, slowing digestion and controlling blood sugar. Fat cells store the unwanted toxic metabolites of a faulty diet, called ‘obesogens’, which when re-released during weight loss re-enter the blood stream and circulate further complex metabolites, which create inflammatory and disease conditions. Without an informed and targeted approach to efficient elimination, immune system health is detrimentally affected and the assumed benefits of that artificial weight loss are now dangerously compounded into disease acceleration.
As an experienced nutritional therapist I can help you lose the fear over food and simplify your approach to staying a healthy weight to capitalise on those weight loss gains and resolve the vicious cycle to contribute significantly to disease prevention and longevity.
Low Energy
Head in hands, can’t get out bed, no motivation, out of breath after a few steps, needing massive amounts of will-power to complete the day, low mood, what might be the matter? The liver, thyroid and vitamin deficiencies, low iron, lingering infections, low immunity, faulty diet, food intolerances,leaky gut, hormones out of whack can all play a part in reducing your joie de vivre. It can be a puzzle, after all your doctor may have tried a few things already? By ruling things out and addressing root causes, as an experienced nutritional therapist I can work with you to get you back to firing on rocket fuel, powering through your schedule and enjoying life, just like before.
Anxiety
For a growing number of psychologists a fundamental part of their treatment protocols is to address diet and lifestyle factors before doling out anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. A junk diet produces a junk mind. Just as your car needs the right fuel, so do you. When you eat, your brain eats too and when it doesn’t get what it needs it stops working properly. This translates into mood disorders, low energy, low productivity, headaches and a range of other symptoms of ‘dis-ease’.
This is simply put, but there are many ways that diet can affect equilibrium because it affects the conversion of food to hormones and neurotransmitters which influence so much of our individual physiology. Lifestyle factors such as healthy breathing, exercise, type and time of day this is undertaken, sleep, social contact, the water you drink, teas you drink and so on also play a part in optimising or junking your mind health.
Get professional diet and lifestyle help to begin recovery.
Gut Health
Gut rumbles after food, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea can be embarrassing and inconvenient symptoms of sluggish digestion and poor diversity in the gut as a consequence of a faulty diet and lifestyle. Support from a nutritional therapist to develop a personalised plan, individual to you and not generalised to catch-all, can be invaluable. Your food choices will be guided towards a nutrient-dense, whole food diet compatible with your lifestyle and individual requirements to optimise your health and contribute to a longer health span and disease prevention. The gut-brain axis is a vital component in Alzheimer’s prevention and most of our immune system resides in the gut.
Walking against the current of our heavily marketed food supply, our agricultural and health systems takes effort and commitment but the rewards are felt quite quickly. You’ll soon join a band of kindred spirits and from there the road is easy.
Alzheimer’s
With Alzheimer’s disease, prevention is the cure, but reversal is also possible according to Professor Dale Bredesen’s more than 30 years of research and numerous successful protocol adherents. The disease is in progress three decades or more before diagnosis so it is never too soon to begin and diet and lifestyle play a massive part in the development of the disease. Amyloid plaque removal is the target of current drug development and medication. It turns out that this plaque is protective so when this protection is removed, rapid regression follows an initial period of improvement.
There are six types of Alzheimer’s:
Hot (Inflammatory)
1.5) Sweet (Glycotoxic)Cold (Atrophic)
Vile (Toxic)
Pale (Vascular)
Dazed (Traumatic)
These typically develop due to faulty diet and lifestyle factors so reversing those lifelong daily decisions can relatively quickly show changes in memory and learning. It’s a dramatic improvement when family can see that ‘lost’ relative smile and laugh again, realising that they had lost that ability many months before.
I am a qualified ReCODE and PreCODE practitioner and can help you get started with a personalised nutrition plan dealing with root causes. Walking against the current of our health system is hard work, but it becomes easier once the rewards are felt.
Digestive Issues
Proton pump inhibitors such as lansoprazole and omeprazole are responsibly prescribed for no more than two weeks. This is because they switch off the proton pumps that deliver hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes contained in it, into the stomach to aid digestion. Without those elements it is not possible to efficiently digest food. This impairs travel time through the gut leading to constipation or diarrhoea, food allergies and intolerances, poor delivery of nutrients for repair of organs and tissue, ultimately chronic disease including Alzheimer’s and auto-immune conditions. I’d like to bet you know someone who has been taking PPIs for a ‘lifetime’?
Digestive issues such as acid reflux, bloating, IBS, indigestion, constipation, diverticulitis, can be alleviated through proper attention to diet and lifestyle, with some quite simple changes taking effect pretty quickly, without having to take a sledge-hammer PPI to crack a nut. Acute disease is best treated by a doctor. Your best bet for chronic health conditions may well lie in the complementary health sector. Call one of us and find out if we can help — start here if you prefer?
Menopause and Hormone Balance
Sailing into menopause with a following wind of timely nutritional support rather than crashing into it in a state of high stress and disordered hormones, can be the difference between noticing significant shifts and being overwhelmed by them.
Menopause is a natural process which sometimes needs a helping hand and it’s never too soon or too late to seek guidance to create optimal function to ease that transition.
Heart Health
The pump, the channels, the fluid are all affected by diet and lifestyle choices. Which of your choices are adversely affecting your circulation, nutrient delivery and waste collection? Adopting a whole food, anti-inflammatory diet with lifestyle inputs including a variety of exercise options to suit your personal preferences goes a long way to protect a vital system which can otherwise take a battering and seriously compromise your health.
An experienced nutritional therapist can help point the way through.
Skin Health
Your inside shows up skin-side so seeking support from an experienced nutritional therapist who takes a systems approach to assess function within them, makes a whole lot of sense.
Why not give me a call — I offer 15 min free discovery calls, please feel free to take advantage of this.
Cancer
Research overwhelmingly shows that supporting your health through diet and lifestyle changes while undergoing conventional cancer treatment contributes to a reduction in side effects of chemo and radiotherapy, prescribed medications, as well as improving well-being, resilience, mental health, quality of life, reducing pain and improving outcomes. Cancer treatments can be brutal so the helping hand of nutrition and lifestyle advice can be invaluable by making the real difference to the treatment process and outcomes.
Sue is studying integrative oncology for nutritional therapists with Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel through the Synthesis Clinic in Bristol. She aims to have successfully completed her studies in March 2026.